Strict measures continue at Khao San Road - police conducting checks three times per night

 

Daily News caption: "Strict measures at Khao San Road"

 

Daily News reported that strict Covid-19 measures and protocols continued to be in place for foreign tourists and Thai party-goers in the Khao San area of Bangkok. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1246987-strict-measures-continue-at-khao-san-road-police-conducting-checks-three-times-per-night/

 

Video:Drunk executive fires shots in the air as he drives past police station - he's arrested as many guns found at his house

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported on the case of a man in a yellow Honda who wound down his window while driving past Phrapradaeng police station and fired many shots in the air. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1246994-videodrunk-executive-fires-shots-in-the-air-as-he-drives-past-police-station-hes-arrested-as-many-guns-found-at-his-house/

 

Bangkok: Officials out in force making sure pubs, bars and "sathan borikan" operating as restaurants are following the rules

 

Picture: INN

 

BMA officials led by Khajit Chatchawanich and police checked on areas of Wang Thong Lan in the Thai capital Bangkok to make sure that the Covid-19 rules were being followed.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1246995-bangkok-officials-out-in-force-making-sure-pubs-bars-and-sathan-borikan-operating-as-restaurants-are-following-the-rules/

 

Bangkok: Man shot six times - assailant flees with woman on motorcycle taxi - love triangle suspected

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

Bang Na police in the Bangkok suburbs and forensic teams rushed to Soi Jasote 9 after a shooting. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1246998-bangkok-man-shot-six-times-assailant-flees-with-woman-on-motorcycle-taxi-love-triangle-suspected/

 

Thailand's Roads: "Drunk" truck driver kicked down by angry relative after he kills 2, injures 2

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

There was yet more devastating carnage on the Thai roads last night - this time in the Ratchaburi area just after midnight.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247001-thailands-roads-drunk-truck-driver-kicked-down-by-angry-relative-after-he-kills-2-injures-2/

 

Ratchaburi residents "going bananas" over the lottery! 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

77khaoded reporters went to Ratchaburi to investigate after a coconut plantation owner called Sanong Nimnuan, 58, reckoned he had found a mysterious "ton kluay" or banana tree on his property.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247002-ratchaburi-residents-going-bananas-over-the-lottery/

 

Senior Thai doctor says COVID-19 could lead to long-term side effects

 

 

A senior doctor at the Faculty of Medicine of Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University has advised that it is better to protect oneself from COVID-19 infection due to the possible long-term side effects of the disease, even if they are not hospitalised.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247013-senior-thai-doctor-says-covid-19-could-lead-to-long-term-side-effects/

 

Thai genomics centre predicts COVID-19 will become endemic in the near future

 

Photo: The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

 

The Centre for Medical Genomics, at the Faculty of Medicine of Ramathibodi Hospital, reported today (Monday) that Thailand is approaching the “end game” of the COVID-19 pandemic, with “a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel”, as COVID-19 becomes an endemic disease and Omicron the dominant strain.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247019-thai-genomics-centre-predicts-covid-19-will-become-endemic-in-the-near-future/

 

Thailand Reports First Death From Omicron Variant

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand has confirmed the nation’s first fatality from the Omicron coronavirus strain after an elderly woman died last week.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247032-thailand-reports-first-death-from-omicron-variant/

 

2 Doses of Sinovac Followed by AstraZeneca/Pfizer Give High Immunity Against Omicron , Says Dr. Yong

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - According to Dr. Yong Poovorawan, head of the Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, said people who received two shots of Sinovac followed by a booster shot of AstraZeneca have seen their immunity increase 100 times, or 200 times if followed by a Pfizer booster shot.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247034-2-doses-of-sinovac-followed-by-astrazenecapfizer-give-high-immunity-against-omicron-says-dr-yong/

 

Police: Protests Illegal Under Covid-19 Emergency Decree

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Due to the recent gatherings of protesters outside the Supreme Court and Bangkok Remand Prison, where Arnon Nampa and other protest leaders are detained on charges including lese majeste and sedition, Metropolitan Police Bureau deputy commissioner and spokesman Police Major General Jirasan Kaewsangek said it was illegal to gather under the anti-Covid emergency decree.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247035-police-protests-illegal-under-covid-19-emergency-decree/

 

PM Assigns ‘Anucha’ to Address Expensive Lottery Tickets

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed officials to erect a committee to address the long-standing problem of expensive lottery tickets.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247036-pm-assigns-‘anucha’-to-address-expensive-lottery-tickets/

 

Bird Flu Alert Ordered

 

 

BANGKOK, Jan 17 (TNA) – The chief of the Department of Livestock Development ordered his officials nationwide to be on alert to prevent the outbreak of avian influenza.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247038-bird-flu-alert-ordered/

 

First lot of inexpensive Antigen Test Kits for online sales in Thailand immediately sold out

 

 

Covid19 Antigen Test Kits (ATK) sales from the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) were sold out as soon as an online sale started at 9:00 AM. on its website today, January 17th, according to local media reports.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247040-first-lot-of-inexpensive-antigen-test-kits-for-online-sales-in-thailand-immediately-sold-out/

 

Increasing demand for crocodile meat helping croc raising farmers

 

 

Due to the skyrocketing price of pork in Thailand, the demand for crocodile meat has been increasing, which has helped crocodile farmers affected by the pandemic.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247042-increasing-demand-for-crocodile-meat-helping-croc-raising-farmers/

 

Education inequality – The state school teachers’ dilemma

 

 

At 332.4 billion baht, for yet another year Thailand’s Ministry of Education has received the largest budget of any ministry. In 2021, this major agency received budget just under 358.4 billion baht. The enormous amount of money pouring into the country’s education system has produced disappointing results.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247043-education-inequality-–-the-state-school-teachers’-dilemma/

 

Boosters recommended for higher immunity against Omicron – Siriraj, Medical Sciences Dept

 

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Vaccine booster shots are recommended for higher immune response against the Omicron COVID-19 variant for people having already received two jabs of any vaccine makes, according to Thailand’s Siriraj Institute of Clinical Research (SICRES) and the Department of Medical Sciences (DMSC).

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247044-boosters-recommended-for-higher-immunity-against-omicron-–-siriraj-medical-sciences-dept/

 

Bangkok Opens New Covid-19 Center Dedicated to Young Patients

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Bangkok’s Dusit district in a collaboration with the Phraya Bhirom Bhakdi Foundation, and Boon Rawd Brewery opened a community isolation facility on Nakhon Chaisi Road in Kiak Kai sub-district exclusively for young Covid-19 patients.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247045-bangkok-opens-new-covid-19-center-dedicated-to-young-patients/

 

High level of air pollution found in 11 areas in and around Bangkok on Monday

 

 

Poor air quality has been reported today (Monday) by the Department of Pollution Control in 11 areas of Bangkok and its surrounding provinces, with the worst in Khlong Sam Wa district of Bangkok.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247046-high-level-of-air-pollution-found-in-11-areas-in-and-around-bangkok-on-monday/

 

Intoxicated female driver injured after crashing her motorbike into a tree in Banglamung

 

An intoxicated female motorbike driver has sustained injuries after she crashed her motorbike into a tree in Banglamung early this morning (January 17th).

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247047-intoxicated-female-driver-injured-after-crashing-her-motorbike-into-a-tree-in-banglamung/v

 

Two Palang Pracharat MPs quit, new party to be launched by two ex-ministers

 

 

Two Palang Pracharat party-list MPs, Supon Fongngam and Santi Kiranand, have quit parliament, reportedly to join a new party, founded by two former ministers in the Prayut administration, which is scheduled to be formally launched this Wednesday.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247073-two-palang-pracharat-mps-quit-new-party-to-be-launched-by-two-ex-ministers/

 

Becoming a teacher is a tough process, but it’s twice as hard when you’re visually impaired

 

 

Thai PBS World spoke to Boonprasert Sattanusorn, a blind educator, about the hardships and difficulties faced by blind teachers in the education system.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1247074-becoming-a-teacher-is-a-tough-process-but-it’s-twice-as-hard-when-you’re-visually-impaired/

 

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